1 – What’s with the introduction? And why that one cut away? Look, a side angle!

2- Set looks nice, yes indeed. But then. 2:23, she takes off his sunglasses, and everyone wonders, why does she take them off like that?

3- This is Zooey’s song from her band She & Him. That bothers me. Is that wrong? I worry I’m getting hater…

4- 1:49, cute.

5- 1:33, this has to be the most awkward edit I’ve ever seen in a music video. Marc Webb is a veteran music video director. Unacceptable.

6- 1:25. UM, WHAT?!?!?! Why can Joe do a flip / hand spring / whatever that is?? I am SO going to see ‘G.I. Joe’ now.

7- She looks…. cumbersome. I’m sorry! I’m not a jealous B, but the lady is no dancer! I know I know, who cares, cause she looks cute in her headband.

So, fine, write me and tell me I’m wrong to be unimpressed. It’s just… FINE. But movieland, don’t you dare overload me and take away the sassy and special sheen that movie provided on its first viewing. I don’t want to be a part of the backlash!!

nina: ok. i’m ok with time jumpingnina: but my problem is that there was no “present” or anchor or point of referencenina: like in eternal sunshine or mementonina: where you always come back to a certain placenina: with thisnina: (a) you are kind of just floating back and forthnina: and (b) he references particular days that you’re supposed to remember

Angela C: but I wouldn’t say floating because you do get the feeling of going somewhere, there’s an anticipation.Angela C: and I think if you just let the vague progression, which they help with the numbers / shade of the background / tree growth etc… you can just let it happenAngela C: which is kind of hard cause numbers are numbersAngela C: and for numbery people I imagine it’s like, do the math do the mathAngela C: but I don’t think it has to be that specific

nina: right…it wasn’t a HUGE problem for me, but i would’ve preferred a different devicenina: i wanted to go back to a particular place a little morenina: so i had a point of referencenina: but what bumped it up to a B+ was definitely (a) it was fucking hilarious and (b) joseph made it feel totally realnina: can’t say the same about zooeyAngela C: yeah i have nitpicky things about her character. they just rely on her big eyes and bangsAngela C: but when she’s like ‘he could be a really great architect if he wanted to be…’Angela C: i’m like ‘ and what do you do, bitch?’

nina: right?! and she’s ALWAYS some larger than life crazy girl that comes in and is wacky and they fall in love with her wackinessAngela C: she has no real meat to her besides the obvious charmy charmAngela C: which really is a writer’s problemnina: i wonder if it’s because she can’t do normalAngela C: such a dude perspectiveAngela C: like, he doesn’t even care, cause of those blue eyes! and they both like the Smiths!

nina: hahaha yea – and i love how that’s the music they likenina: and all we get is regina spektornina: like um…maybe we should be hearing the smiths?nina: another writer’s flaw i thinkAngela C: smiths was a weird choice to meAngela C: but that’s always a problem with movies that are playing to an indie / hip sensibilityAngela C: people are sooooo particular (people, read: me.)

nina: and when they’re in the bar and he’s talking about the way women dress?nina: what the fuck was that?Angela C: that conversation was too real to me, he’s just trying to think of something to sayAngela C: he’s all lost cause she’s being distant I thinknina: i really loved him in thisnina: i was impartial and now i’ve turnednina: he did really well at being someone i knewAngela C: he MADE the movie, would have been a meltdown otherwisenina: like i wanted to shove her out of the way and be like NO date me…ME!!!Angela C: ha… you’re waving your hands ‘yoohoooo’nina: exactly!

Angela C: i wonder if they stuck Autumn in the background of any scenes…..nina: yea i wanted to watch it again cause of thatAngela C: ok, well, as a kind of wrap up, i was thinking about it last night, and regardless of the little issues it’s definitely a special movienina: yes, overall likeAngela C:A.O. Scott actually words it:Angela C: “So a winsome, accessible movie about more-or-less recognizable young people navigating the murky waters of post-sexual-revolutionary, midrecessionary heterosexual attraction has a novelty and a measure of bravery working in its favor, whatever its shortcomings. And “(500) Days” finds just the right scale and tone, neither trivializing nor melodramatically overstating the delicate feelings it explores.”

nina: nice.
Angela C: fuck him and his good ass writingnina: hahahhaha
Angela C: heehee.nina: time to rate. what categories should we use?Angela C: we need a good indie rating

nina: oh! also – such a great relief from judd apatownina: had to say itAngela C: yeah that’s what Scott was referencing- allow another cut and pasteAngela C: “But it is, all the same, a fairly pointed response to the sorry state of romantic comedy in Hollywood, which runs the gamut from gauzily implausible fantasy to blatant and fatuous dishonesty, with an occasional detour into raunchy humor. The governing commercial calculus these days seems to be that dudes want smut, ladies want weddings, and a picture (like “The Hangover,” say) that delivers both will make the audience happy and the studios rich.”nina: ha yes

nina: so we need an indie iconAngela C: yes, but a good onenina: and i think we need a ‘laugh out loud’ iconnina: cause i was doing plenty of thatAngela C: yes, and something that conjures ‘awwwww’Angela C: I was thinking we could have a 10 rating and then fill it however.Angela C: like 4 good indies, 3 awws, 3 lols. ya know?Angela C: and if a movie sucked it could be like 8 poops and 2 tamponsnina: hahahah wow that is a crappy movieAngela C: hahahaha, right? 8 poops is a lot of poopsnina: but we digressnina: ok so how do we visualize these indies, awwws and lols

Angela C: hmmm, a good indie …………nina: is it fair to say that indie = lo budg?Angela C: um, no, indie = hipnina: ok so hip = …Angela C: and also low budg… but more hip…Angela C: like bad / cliche icons might be – raybans, flannel, skinny jeans, certain haircuts, beards….nina: ok…cup of coffee?Angela C: that kind of works, it would have to be Intelligentsia, it’s hip but it’s also GOOOOOOODnina: right. we could do thatAngela C: you can make an intelligentsia coffee cup icon?nina: yes. for sure.nina: and awww?nina: so cute aww or sad aww?nina: cause i felt bothAngela C: bothAngela C: a sick kittennina: that’s horrific

Angela C: charming heartbreak. how do you personify??nina: arghnina: ok what if we go to LOL firstAngela C: well maybe just a laughing emoticonAngela C: with a bubble ‘lol’nina: oknina: damn now we’re back to awwwnina: shit. i don’t knownina: joseph gordon levitt heads?Angela C: yeah just do thatAngela C: he deserves to be a part of the rating